他們要我們整夜工作。

They made us work all night.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他們 tāmen they; them
=2 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=2 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=2 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
3 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
4 整夜 zhěngyè
  1. the whole night
  2. all through the night
5 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: 個, 份, 項